Are you aspiring to teach your Russian Tracker to sit? The talent of sitting up is quite easily taught to little dogs, yet much larger pet dogs are a different story. It’s challenging for them to maintain their equilibrium.
Teach Your Russian Tracker to Sit: Groundwork
Sitting is one of the initial techniques that you should teach to your Russian Tracker and forms the foundation for myriad other techniques. In order to train a Russian Tracker to sit up, organize some snacks as a reward, and set your Russian Tracker on her haunches in the corner, so she will not fall either aft or sideways and has very little or no space to stumble.
Teach Your Russian Tracker to Sit: Acquaint Her With The Sound of The Words
Prevent her from pitching forward by sticking one hand under her chin and with your other hand dangle her treat above her nose. Keep saying clearly and deliberately, “sit.” Don’t make her sit for too long at one time, but do repeat the training routinely and reward her frequently with plenty of adoration and snacks.
Teach Your Russian Tracker to Sit: Help Her Maintain Balance
In her 1st lesson your Russian Tracker will need quite a bit of assistance from you to keep her from falling forward, but as she gets control of her stabilizing muscles and sees what you want her to do, she’ll count less on your hand to keep her in position. Then you can gradually give your Russian Tracker less help and support up until you will simply have to leave one hand in position 2 or 3 inches from her neck or chin, to be available to stop her falling forward; later you can most likely take away this hand altogether and simply dangle the reward right above the height of her face.
Teach Your Russian Tracker To Sit: Remove the Assistance Gradually
After regular training your Russian Tracker will sit up long after you tell her to. Then she should be set up against a wall, so as to offer her a support for her back only. Once she has gotten the hang of this and can maintain her place effortlessly, rehearse with her up against chair legs, pillows or other items that provide her less and less help. Eventually she will grasp how to sustain her balance and sit up without having anything to lean on.
Teach Your Russian Tracker to Sit: Putting It All Together
During all these lessons the words "sit up" will have been instilled upon her psyche with the assistance of constant repetition. Last here's the final lesson to teach your Russian Tracker to sit up as quickly as she hears the command. It's highly likely, if she has been carefully taught, you will merely have to call her out into the room, reveal to her a treat, hold it up a reasonable distance from the ground, say "sit up" and she will do so. Then give her the treat while still in place.
The only condition for perfection is to rehearse with your Russian Tracker multiple times daily until she will sit when told and without being shown a treat; give her the treats only after she has complied with the order.
Teach Your Russian Tracker Other Tricks
You have now the basis for teaching your Russian Tracker many other skills. She can now learn to beg by waving your hand up and down in front of her paws, which she'll move in coordination with yours. She also can be taught to salute by bringing one paw to the side of her head, or to hold a toy in her mouth, or to wear a hat on her head or wear other articles of clothing.
When training a Russian Tracker to accept being clothed, don't try to get her to wear too many items simultaneously. Try at first with just a hat. Once she becomes used to that you can put on a jacket and steadily introduce her to more clothes.
Appreciate "teaching your Russian Tracker the sit up trick" and most importantly have fun in the process!
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